Latest Ravi Zacharias Quotes from Interviews

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• Even though the search for meaning is debunked today, the cries of the human heart can be smothered for only so long. In these yearnings, the search for significance and fulfillment continues.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Heart, Long, Today

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• We do our universities a disservice when we brand them as a lost cause. There are some frightfully honest students out there, and when their questions are respectfully dealt with, many admit their vulnerability.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Causes, Students, Honest

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• The church should provide a setting in which people can express their questions.

  Ravi Zacharias

  People, Church, Should

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• In churches, we live with the danger of one-way verbal traffic.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Church, Way, Danger

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• In India, there is a saying that you can touch your nose directly or you can touch your nose the long way around. You need to go the long way around to reach some people.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Long, People, India

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• Today there is no greater force in the molding of the North American mind than the invasion of the imagination by the visual media.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Media, Imagination, Mind

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• The church still meets people at the transition points. Marriages break down. Children commit suicide and leave helpless parents. Death and suffering are everywhere.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Suicide, Children, People

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• The questions of today's average young person, who is the product of America's intellectual bastions, have been virtually unaddressed by the church.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Average, America, Intellectual

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• There is a danger when we give young people only a catalog of dos and don'ts. In these young minds, the gospel is not intellectually credible.

  Ravi Zacharias

  People, Giving, Mind

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• We need to learn how to handle critique and how to address an antagonist.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Needs, Addresses, Antagonist

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• Even as you wrestle with the ideas of an opponent, you must keep the dignity of the opponent intact.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Ideas, Opponents, Dignity

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• The old Indian proverb holds true. Once you've cut off a person's nose, there's no point in giving him a rose to smell.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Cutting, Smell, Giving

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• If you can make any religion look idiotic, chances are you haven't understood that religion.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Looks, Chance, Idiotic

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• You can't take treasured beliefs from the past and mock them.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Past, Belief, Treasured

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• Jesus resisted the temptation of outrage and the quick fix of condemnation. He spent most of his time preparing wineskins before pouring new wine into them. Our tendency is to start pouring the wine into skins that will only burst.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Jesus, Wine, Temptation

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• It can be frustrating to see how society has taken the sacred out of everything.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Taken, Sacred, Frustrating

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Usa, Ideas, Intellectual

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• At the universities I visit, the exclusivity of Christ is challenged in every open forum - "How can you possibly talk about one God or one way when there are so many good options?"

  Ravi Zacharias

  Way, Christ, Forums

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• Today, sensitivities are at an all-time high - and rightfully so. Tolerance of different races and religions have been lacking over the years, but pluralism has given way to relativism.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Race, Years, Tolerance

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• Life has been reduced to temporal pursuits disconnected from all the other disciplines necessary for life to be meaningfully engaged.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Discipline, Pursuit, Disconnected

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• The happy pagan is wrapped up in the belief that this world and the success it affords are the greatest pursuits in life. He or she feels no need for anything transcendent.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Needs, World, Belief

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• You can easily substitute the intellect for true devotion. Devotion comes from the heart, and from the will. The intellect, you can cerebrally answer things, but you make a big mistake when that happens.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Mistake, Heart, Answers

  Source: www.apologetics315.com

• You have to plan it [your devotion to God] every day. And, the best time to plan it is before your day begins. If you don't plan it, your day will plan you. And so, I make a disciplined life of the study of the scriptures, reading the word every day.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Reading, Scripture, Devotion To God

  Source: www.apologetics315.com

• Study hard. Understand not only the questions, but the questioner. Know how best to articulate the answers, but do it with humility, because ultimately the answer is in a person, the person of Christ, not in an argument. So, do your work and know how to present the answer, but do it with gentleness and meekness.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Humility, Answers, Study

  Source: www.apologetics315.com

• Christian faith is exclusivistic. Christian faith lays claim upon our lives. The sanctity of life, what we do with a life, is very definitive in the Christian faith, what we do with sexuality, what we do with marriage, all of the fundamental questions of life have points of reference for answers, and people just have an aversion for that. That I think is the biggest reason they feel hostile towards the Christian faith.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Thinking, People

  Source: www.apologetics315.com